There voted with
us twenty-eight firms, thirty-one ladies, seven doctors.
"There voted with the union fourteen firms, two ladies, _thirty-seven
doctors,_ and three _druggists._
"Thereupon the trades-union, as declared by the figures, alleged that
firms ought not to vote. _Nota bene,_ they always had voted unchallenged
till they voted for fair play to women.
"The union served the provost with an interdict not to declare the new
managers elected.
"We applied for our tickets under the new statute, but were impudently
refused, under the plea that the managers must first be consulted: so did
the servants of the infirmary defy the masters in order to exclude us.
"By this time the great desire of women to practice medicine had begun to
show itself. Numbers came in and matriculated; and the pressure on the
authorities to keep faith, and relax the dead-lock they had put us in,
was great.
"Thereupon the authorities, instead of saying, 'We have pledged ourselves
to a great number of persons, and pocketed their fees,' took fright, and
cast about for juggles. They affected to discover all of a sudden that
they had acted illegally in matriculating female students.
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